| Dates: May 1-4, 2012
Location: The University of Cambridge
This ICNC course on "People Power in the Struggle for Freedom" will take place at the University of Cambridge from May 1- 4, 2012.
This is a four-day series of sessions and discussions that provide an in-depth and multidisciplinary perspective on civilian movements and campaigns that defend basic rights, accountability, and justice. We invite participants from academia (students and scholars), NGO professionals, relevant policymakers, and active members of social movements. Thematic sessions include: How Civil Resistance Works, Forgotten History of Civil Resistance, Agency
of People and their Collective Actions, Media in Civil Resistance, Sustained People’s Nonviolent Mobilization in Egypt, Movement in Action: Strategies, Tactics and Planning, Civil Resistance and a Violent Flank in South Africa, Woman and Minorities in Civil Resistance, and case studies from the Arab
Spring and beyond.
Dates: April 23rd - June 5th, 2012
Location: Online
This online course provides an in-depth and multidisciplinary perspective on civilian-based movements and campaigns that defend and obtain basic rights and justice around the world with the use of nonviolent tactics and strategies - from Egypt to Burma, from Zimbabwe to West Papua.
We look at issues of agency and structure, strategic planning and mobilization, formation, sustenance and dynamics of nonviolent movements, democratic transitions and civil resistance, backfire and security divisions, digital actors and tools, role of third party actors and finally, historical and contemporary cases of civil resistance around the world. Dates: April 17-20, 2012
Location: Rosario University
The ICNC course on the power of nonviolent action will take place at Rosario University from April 17 - 20, 2012.  Dates: March 16, 2012
Location: The University of the Basque Country
The practice of civil resistance, or strategic nonviolent action, has been used with increasing frequency and success around the world for the past century. The popular nonviolent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East are the latest cases to demonstrate the power of civil resistance in peoples’ struggles for freedom and human rights.
This is a one-day intensive course designed to provide an in-depth and multidisciplinary perspective on civilian based movements and campaigns that defend basic rights, accountability, and justice.
We will look at the following issues in civil resistance: History and dynamics of civil resistance; Movement in action: strategies, tactics and planning; Women in civil resistance; Civil resistance in unstable societies; Civil resistance in democracies; Civil resistance and
democratic transition; Future research on civil resistance.
Participants: scholars, students, activists of social movements, workers of NGO, etc. Dates: March 13-15, 2012
Location: The University of Deusto
The ICNC course on the power and dynamics of civil resistance will take place at the University of Deusto from March 13 - 15, 2012. Dates: February 20-22, 2012
Location: The University of Sydney
The ICNC course on the power and dynamics of civil resistance will take place at Sydney University from February 20 - 22. Dates: February 10-12, 2012
Location: American University / Washington, DC
This two and a half day skills institute, offered through American University, is designed to provide a multi-disciplinary perspective on nonviolent, civilian-based movements and campaigns that defend and obtain basic rights and justice around the world. Dates: Oct 20 - Dec 8, 2012
Location: This course was conducted entirely online
Civil Resistance and the Dynamics of Nonviolent Conflict is a professional level course developed by ICNC and presented under the auspices of the United States Institute of Peace. This course is designed to provide an in-depth and multi-disciplinary perspective on civilian-based movements and campaigns that defend and obtain basic rights and justice around the world, and in so doing transform the global security environment.
Dates: January 5-8, 2012
Location: University of Amsterdam
The ICNC course on the power and dynamics of civil resistance will take place at Amsterdam University from January 5 - 10.
Dates: October 10-13, 2011
Location: Hong Kong
The ICNC course on the power and dynamics of civil resistance will take place at the School of Law at the University of Hong Kong.
Dates: September 8-12, 2011
Location: Budapest, Hungary
The ICNC course on civil resistance will take place at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
Dates: August 29 - December 5, 2011
Location: George Mason University
The emergence, sustenance and dynamics of social movements and civil resistance is the subject of this seminar. We will explore the sociology, social history and theoretical bases of civil resistance as it unfolded and became a powerful agent of social change from the twentieth century onwards.
Dates: June 19-25, 2011
Location: Tufts University / Medford, MA
This institute will offer participants an in-depth introduction to the key strategic concepts and dynamics of nonviolent conflict. Close to 25 distinct sessions, in addition to luncheon presentations and evening discussions, will provide participants with both, intensive and comprehensive learning experience about a gamut of issues relevant to pro-democracy movements and popular nonviolent resistance.
Dates: January 12 - 14, 2011
Location: Virginia Tech
This ICNC academic program is part of a short course "Non-Violent Civic Action: Negotiations, Strategies and Tactics" that will be offered at Virginia Tech between January 12 and 14, 2011. Dates: November 8-12, 2010
Location: Ljubljana, SloveniaIn coordination with the Euro-Mediterranean University in Slovenia, ICNC is proud to offer the academic seminar, Power and Dynamics of Civil Resistance, November 8-12, 2010 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Dates: Oct 19 - Dec 9, 2010
Location: United States Institute of Peace / Washington, DC
Civil Resistance and the Dynamics of Nonviolent Conflict is a professional level course developed by ICNC and presented under the auspices of the United States Institute of Peace. This course is designed to provide an in-depth and multi-disciplinary perspective on civilian-based movements and campaigns that defend and obtain basic rights and justice around the world, and in so doing transform the global security environment. Dates:October 14 - 16, 2010
Location: Ramallah, West Bank
The ICNC Seminar on Teaching Civil Resistance is an educational seminar for local scholars and civil society actors. Dates: July 25-27, 2010
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
As part of its education mission, ICNC is organizing a two-day academic training for international college and university instructors, faculty members and doctoral students on teaching and studying the subject of civil resistance. Dates: June 28-30, 2010
Location: Strasbourg, France
The 5th Summer University for Democracy, a gathering of 600 political leaders, civil society activists, journalists and business leaders met to discuss "crises of leadership." Dates: June 20-25, 2010
Location: Tufts University / Medford, MA
The Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict is the only executive education program in the advanced, interdisciplinary study of nonviolent conflict, taught by leading scholars and practitioners of strategic nonviolent action and authorities from related fields. Dates: May 21-22, 2010
Location: Emory Conference Center / Atlanta, GA
As part of its education mission, ICNC is organizing a two-day academic training for North American college and university instructors, faculty members and doctoral students on teaching and studying the subject of civil resistance.
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The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict is dedicated to developing an understanding and encouraging the use of strategic civilian-based, nonviolent action to establish and defend human rights, justice, and self-rule. Through our various course offerings we work with audiences to advance this mission.
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